physical activity with good nutrition habit that support healthy weight can have strong and direct effect on the child's potential to learn.
Enhancing academic success through healthy school environment suggest:
1- 62% of the teens don't eat breakfast everyday
2- Those who eat breakfast have better attention and memory than those who skip this meal.
3- 3/4 students aren't active for recommended 1 hr each day
4- Active students are better on standardized tests for reading, math and spelling.
According to Dr. David Satcher, 16th U.S Surgeon General and director of the Satcher Health Leadership Institute, those who have poor nutrition, inactivity and unhealthy weight have also poor academic achievement.
Moreover, poor nutrition creates hard costs, these costs include spiraling health expenses, lower productivity and a future workforce unprepared for success.
We should find solutions to improve healthy nutrition and physical activity for our society future, parents should start it at home, and teachers continue it at schools.
This topic is somehow related to the webinar we watched! You should write a reflection about the two, it will be amazing and we can all benefit from. :)
ReplyDeleteYeah! they are some how related to each other. All in all the physical health and the mental health are related to each other and effect on each other we see those students who have obesity are low achievers because they don't have energy to work hard and achieve more as if they don't have power to run fast or to jump.
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